[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Originally posted by LintMan:
How about this for a switcheroo-style game:
Everyone designs a pretender for a race, submits it, and Posts the details of their design. If there are any stinker pretender designs, people can vote that that designer has to play his own cruddy pretender. All the other (resaonable) pretenders get randomly assigned to the other players.

I LIKE this one. It's better (and shorter, and more directly self-policing) than the "Double-Header Switcheroo" idea I was working on this morning... Game One with your own design, then as soon as someone gets knocked out, Game Two starts with Current Leader getting the next-to-Last-place player's nation, working inward. (with one less player-- the player knocked out of Game 1 not participating in Game 2.) Best combined finish (your nation G1, the nation you ended up with G2, your nation as it was played in G2, weighting to be determined) wins the match. The point is that players should be building pretenders they wouldn't too much fear as opponents while still being playable on their own. {Looking again at your proposal... how would it be known that the design posted was the real one actually submitted? Likely safer to have the Game Director post them...}

Also, there should be a chance that you could randomly get your own design, so if you go for a very mediocre pretender (not quite bad enough for people to stick it to you), you still have to worry about getting stuck with it.

As far as creatively bad pretender designs, my pick would be for something like an immobile "rainbow" oracle or blood fountain.

Yes, and OUCH. Uses all the points uselessly. At least it can forge things though...
Anyone have any comments on the "No Duplicate Avatars Please" concept? It's been kinda neglected... {nuts that's still a junky name for it...}